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** The clown looked human too, but he was apparently immune to bullets so there's clearly some kind of supernatural thing going on here.
*** The clown is clearly a ref to Pennywise from [[IT]], though, so he's supernatural by, er, nature. [[The Strangers]] were just sadistic serial killers.
** Creepy figures in masks were a staple of horror long before ''[[The Strangers]]''. Perhaps the ones in the facility are similar to a more supernatural version, even if their appearance is a [[Shout
** If the facility's backers are as politically-powerful as is implied, they may well have recruited some of their less-magical creatures ''from'' jail. The Dollfaces, if they're human, are probably on record as having died in some maxiumum-security prison or an asylum for the criminally insane.
* So no one who designed this facility ever took a moment to think "Say....we have this giant invisible hypertech forcefield that keeps all of our monsters trapped in the vicinity of our base, right? Even things that can tear through reinforced steel doors and phase through matter (e.g. ghosts). Hey, maybe while we're spending billions on this thing to keep the monsters from getting out we should apply a little of that tech around our offices and nerve centers to keep them from getting IN."
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* Ignoring the ending, how would the concept of a "sequel" be handled? The film itself has been said to be a metaphor of horror films and their audiences so how would this business go around preparing a "sequel" should a previous survivor return to the area days, months or years later?
** Anyone up for a [[Deconstructive Parody]] of [[Kaiju]] movies?
** Possibly the Ancient Ones don't destroy everybody all at once, but rather, condemn ''all'' humans to play out the same sorts of rituals, one scenario after another after another. This continues non-stop until A) one of the sacrifices finds a way to go back in time and kill Marty before dawn, B) their bloodlust is so slaked by oceans of gore that they finally go back to sleep, or C) they run out of humans. Or, since it's a deconstruction, until one of the intended sacrifices calls them out on [[Take That, Audience!|how lame it is to watch innocent people suffering for kicks]].
** How do we know that the Ancient Ones will rise if not sated, and if they rise, they will "destroy" the world? Presumably, because it happened before. Since we are here, then, it's not like ''total'' world destruction. After all, [[The Terminator|SkyNet]] is never able to ''totally'' destroy all organic life. Not even humans. But they do manage to pretty much "destroy" the world.
*** For all we know, it'd happened before to a species that ''preceded'' humans, and we only inherited the Earth because our Precursors blew it with ''their'' rituals. We know very little about the Verse in which this film is set, aside from the existence of a fairly diverse assortment of monsters and some grumpy horror-addicted Ancient Ones.
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**** [[Ringu]] may very well have been the succesful ritual for that year in-'Verse. Remember the Japanese had a flawless record up to this point.
***** Which could explain the 1998 reference. Everybody failed except for Japan, explaining the explosion of Japanese remakes that we started to see in the US ([[The Ring]], [[The Grudge]], [[The Eye]], [[One Missed Call]], etc). After the US's formula failed they started trying what worked for the other guys. And it could also be a joke about how coming so close to disaster in 1998 lead Japan to start clinging to the "scary ghost girl" trope to guarantee that they'd never fail again.
** ''[[
** Scoping a list of 1998 horror films, the only one that sticks out is [[The Faculty]]. There isn't a single fatality within the main cast of students (save for the "Virgin" who is ultimately revealed as the monster). And to make matters worse the monster's undoing turns out to be the stoner's custom mix. Damn chem department indeed...
* I don't get it; many, many people died in the movie, many more than the four/five that were supposed to, yet the Ancient Douches don't enjoy it and instead decide that the world ends? How dumb ''are'' they?
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**** Just like [[Dawson Casting|twenty-something actors playing high school kids]] is enough for horror-film audiences' satisfaction.
*** From the moment we found out Marty was alive, I spent the whole third act waiting for a plot twist in which Dana gets killed and the Apocalypse is averted because of it, on the grounds that none of them fit their hastily established roles, and ''Marty'' is actually the Virgin. Sadly, it never came.
* In terms of the world is it like the SCP Foundation, only the
* Did it occur to anyone that the characters (and actors) are too young to have gotten the reference to the anti-drug PSA? It's from the 80s. Yet the characters are all college students, which puts them somewhere between about 18 and 22 -- all born in the 90s or just before.
** [[Hand Wave|Internet.]]
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